Claire K. Turner
Position: SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow
Office Location: Totem Field Studios 205
Phone: 604-822-2976
Email: claire.turner@ubc.ca

Mailing Address:
UBC Department of Linguistics
2613 West Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
V6T 1Z4

Educational Background

PhD, University of Surrey (UK), 2011. Thesis: 'Representing Events in Saanich (Northern Straits Salish): the interaction of aspect and valence'

MA, University of Victoria, 2006. Thesis: 'The SENĆOŦEN resultive construction'
Published version in NWJL

BA, University of British Columbia, 2004.

Areas of Interest

My research is focused on Salish languages, particularly SENĆOŦEN (Saanich), and particularly in the areas of morphology and semantics. I am currently a SSHRC funded postdoctoral researcher looking at modality and evidentiality. My MA and PhD work was on aspect (resultative, perfective/imperfective, situation types). After completing my PhD in the Surrey Morphology Group, I continued working there for six months on a database and website of SENĆOŦEN materials. I have also collaborated with Janet Leonard at the University of Victoria on morpho-phonological work.

Publications

(2011). A SENĆOŦEN web database for linguists and community. In Papers for the 46th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics.

(2011). Saanich Verb Database. Guildford, UK: Surrey Morphology Group.

(2010). Predicting the shape of SENĆOŦEN imperfectives. In David Beck (ed.), A Festschrift for Thomas M. Hess on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday. Bellingham, WA: Whatcom Museum Publications. 82-112. (with Janet Leonard)

(2010) Aspectual properties of SENĆOŦEN reflexives. Papers for the 45th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages. Vancouver: UBC Working Papers in Linguistics.

(2007). The SENĆOŦEN resultive construction. Northwest Journal of Linguistics 1 (3), 1-92.

(2005). Resultatives and Actuals in SENĆOŦEN. Papers for the 40th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages. Vancouver: UBC Working Papers in Linguistics.

(2005). Tone fusion in Mòbà Yorùbá. In Mugane, J., Hutchison, J., & Worman, D., (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of African Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

CV

Download my current CV. Last updated April 2012.

Links

SENĆOŦEN database and conversations